rupture

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌptʃə/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)

1. A burst, split, or break.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:

     Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.

2. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
   • 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland

     He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.

   • 1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History

     Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.

3. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
4. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.

Translations

burst or split

• Bulgarian: скъсване (bg) n (skǎsvane), разкъсване (bg) n (razkǎsvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 破裂 (zh) (pòliè)

• Czech: prasklina (cs) f, prasknutí n
• Finnish: puhkeaminen (fi) (burst); halkeama (fi) (split), katkeaminen (fi) (break)
• French: rupture (fr) f
• German: Bruch (de) m
• Italian: rottura (it)
• Japanese: 破裂 (ja) (はれつ, haretsu)
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• Korean: 터짐 (teojim)
• Latin: ruptura
• Portuguese: rotura (pt) f, ruptura (pt) f (Brazil), rutura f (Portugal)
• Romanian: ruptură (ro)
• Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv)
• Spanish: rotura (es)

social break

• Bulgarian: разрив (bg) m (razriv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斷交／断交 (zh) (duànjiāo), 断交 (zh) (duànjiāo)

• Czech: rozkol m, roztržka (cs) f
• Finnish: välirikko (fi)
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• German: Bruch (de) m
• Korean: 결렬 (ko) (gyeollyeol)
• Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv)

break in tissue

• Bulgarian: херния (bg) f (hernija)
• Czech: ruptura (cs) f, kýla (cs) f
• Finnish: revähdys (fi)
• Greek: κήλη (el) f (kíli)
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• Indonesian: ruptur
• Latin: rāmex m
• Plautdietsch: Bruch m
• Portuguese: ruptura (pt) f

failure mode

• Catalan: ruptura (ca)
• Finnish: venymä (fi)
• German: Zerreißen n
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• Italian: rottura (it) f
• Korean: 파단 (padan)
• Russian: разры́в (ru) m (razrýv)

Verb

rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
2. (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.

Translations

to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure

• Czech: prasknout (cs)
• Finnish: puhjeta (fi), haljeta (fi), murtua (fi)
• Latvian: trūkt (lv)
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• Maori: ngawhewhe
• Portuguese: romper (pt)
• Russian: разрыва́ться (ru) impf (razryvátʹsja), разорва́ться (ru) pf (razorvátʹsja)

See also

• Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “rupture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “rupture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “rupture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *Hrewp-

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruptūra. Doublet of roture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp.tyʁ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

rupture f (plural ruptures)

1. breakup, rupture

Derived terms

• en rupture de ban
• en rupture de stock

Usage notes

This word almost always unambiguously means "breakup" when used absolutely. For other senses, it needs a complement.

Verb

rupture

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Further reading

• “rupture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) ruptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ruptūrus